Top of the Castle

In Sifnos, the town up on the top of the hill is called Castro.  We’ve gone a couple times to eat but mostly just headed right to Stratos and settled in for the night. Who can blame us with a view like this.


But we headed up there early one night and no restaurants were open. In Greece restaurants aren’t ready to serve you at 6:30, so we started walking and before we knew it we were almost to the top of the village. If you walk up a whole lot of stairs at the top is a little church with a beautiful view of the island.

Adam was having a toddler moment (or hour), what you’re surprised that we were surprised that dragging him across the world resulted in some toddler moments 🙂

So it was nice to be out and walking and let him try to remember that his parents are awesome and he should be nice to us 🙂

Part of toddlerdom meant zero desire to pose for pictures. That’s fine buddy, you look pretty good on the floor in front of that blue door.

We snuck a couple pictures in before he resorted to his favorite phrase to be repeated in a high nasaly voice when he is most not in the mood.  ‘Maybe next time’ with the emphasis on the next.  Maybe neeeeext time.
His friend Shane taught him this in the playground.  Shane’s mom must have been trying to teach Shane how to nicely say no to sharing, so when Shane said no to sharing his dinosaur and told Adam maybe next time, it really stuck.  Now when we ask Adam to say sorry for hitting Malcolm, share some of his dessert, pick up his toys- his reply is No, maybe next time.  Thanks Shane.

We managed to sneak in a picture upon the condition that Adam’s shoes come off.  Smile not included in those negotiations.

One day Adam, you’ll realize that we’re not so terrible because you couldn’t have any more gummy bears and we took you to see pretty things. 

In the meantime, we’ll wake up our other child so we have at least one child to pose with.

After we started our descent moods changed. It didn’t hurt that Adam wanted a snack and all I had in my bag was a cookie. If I had only known it was that easy I would have broken it out earlier!  And we’ll forgive you, because even in those moments it’s pretty funny when you tell us, No, I no like take pictures, maybe next time and while it’s annoying it’s also a pretty impressive sentence.  And plus you’re pretty cute. 
We headed to the restaurant and ordered some yummy Fava (beans) and meatballs and everyone was happy. 

This has to be my favorite picture of all time.  Because as we all know, with children, half of your meal is spent like this. But in Greece at least you know the food is worth it!  

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